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outrun

verb as in run faster than

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Nike outran expectations in its latest quarterly report.

Here, Isaac attempts to outrun criticism by sighing, “The issue is that I treated you too well?”

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He can outrun a train, hold up a collapsing tower on a fiery oil rig and fly around the world to turn back time.

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Boyle’s directorial decisions and clever, mesmerizing editing are largely why the film can outrun its zombie genre conventions.

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But it's starting to look like they have less time than the Bush administration did to execute their plan to outrun reality.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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